Emergent yumminess from the trembling edge of happiness.

I've been told I should blog more

Did Glenn Beck murder and rape a girl in 1990?

Lots of questions are being asked about Glenn Beck, a guy on Fox news. It would be sad if a venerable and popular fair and balanced news channel like Fox News had been supporting a man who may or may not be a murderer all these years. Clearly there are questions that must be answered.

Hello from THE FUTURE

If you are one of the handful of people that used to read this blog or subscribe to its RSS feed you might think by my posting history that my life ended after the election last year. To the contrary, things have been very interesting, I just hadn't been happy with this platform. Everything else (I mean Facebook and Twitter, pretty much) just seems a little too general to use to drop crazy poetry, thoughts, found things and general stoked bits of happiness/laments that require a little more work than tweeting. That, combined with a job that threw me in the middle of the whole social networking/blogging thing almost so much that I became more interested in it as a phenomenon rather than an outlet has lead to Throb's poor disuse. I think (now that enough time has passed that nobody comes here anymore AND Typepad has had a much overdue feature update) I have license to once again use this space to unload after work. Hopefully, now, I'll be able to creatively engage with Throb in a meaningful way again.

I'll keep the majority of stupid things I trip across on the web to myself or my Reddit or Twitter or Facebook accounts and I'll use this space to create, store and share stuff I do myself. Hope you like it, but I'm not too worried about it.

Recursive 3D

Oooo.... this zoomy recursive 3D fractalish thing is cool. Makes me think it would be cool to try to tell a story through zoom. Would be kind of Buddha, no beginning, no end, just cycles. It could branch even...

I think it is good I am always I might be crazy

It's so nice to be working so hard again; I'm at a place full of fresh new ideas and it's got the spirit to chase them. Life is full of predators and competition and dirty nibbling bastards with noisome and poisonous beaks... but it's also full of promising new horizons and deliciousness and doggone it, people like me.

I've been working on a few things. One of them is my silly taking-forever robot project. The basic idea is to create armatures, systems, of counterbalanced springs and hydraulic or wire-tensioned levers to conduct organized work. I think, if carefully done, that even low powered motors and actuators and a simple PC brain can make such a machine perform elegant things in the world.

I went to Orcas Island last weekend and saw an incredibly inspiring sculpture park belonging to the artist Anthony Howe. Talk about a fresh vision. This amazing man lives super close to Seattle and, while there's some inspiring stuff in our sculpture park, very little of the the projects displayed come close to the evocative lusty and raw elegance of Mr. Howe's strangely natural creations.
All I want to do is take what Anthony Howe has done and goose it with a little technology.

That said, probably this robot project is taking forever because it has no clear goals or milestones: it's just a funky tinkerer's mirage. Like most of you I am a mostly blind blunderer intently focused on creating a knockout story in my own personal dreamspace.

Here's a good thing to watch instead of American Idol or whatever tonight: www.ted.net.